Device for attaching fishing-lines to floats or sinkers



, PATENTED MAY 30, 1905.

O A. R ROBERTSON. DEVICE FOR ATTAOHING FISHING LINES TO FLOATS ORSINKERS.

APPLIOATIDR FILED JULY 26,1904.

WITNESSES: INVENTOI? #Zemizdzrflfiaeriawa A 7TOHNE VS UNITED STATESPatented May 30, 1905.

PATENT @FFICE.

DEVICE FOR ATTACHING FISHING-LINES Tf) FLOATS OR SINKERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 791,290, dated May 30,1905.

Application filed July 25, 1904.- Serial No. 218,200.

r all Lu/0071 it may concern.- Be it known that I, ALEXANDER ROTH R013-LTSON, a citizen of the United States, and a sident of Pass Christian,in the county of arrison and State of Mississippi, have innted a new andImproved Device for At- :hing Fish-Lines to Floats or Sinkers, of richthe following is a full, clear, and exact scription. This inventionrelates to improvements in vices for attaching fishing-lines to floatsand 1kers, the object being to provide an at- :hing device of simpleconstruction and inpensive, by means of which a line may be ,icklyattached to and securely held in con- :t with a float or sinker, butpermitting the at to be adjusted as desired, and that may readilydetached without removing the oks from the line or the line from a rod.I will describe a device for attaching fish- [ES to floats or sinkersembodying my inntion and then point out the novel features the appendedclaims. Reference is to be had to the accompanying awings, forming apart of this specification, which similar characters of referenceinclite corresponding parts in all the figures. Figure 1 shows a sinker,a float, and a line th attaching devices embodying my invenm. Fig. 2 isa longitudinal section of the taching device shown in Fig. 1. Figs. 3,and 5 are sectional views showing modifitions. Fig. 6 is a section onthe line 6 6 of g. 4. Fig. 7 is a section on the line 7 7 of g. 2. Fig.8 is a cross-section showing anher modification, and Fig. 9 illustratesthe mner of clamping the line against the stem a float or sinker.Referring to the drawings, 10 designates a at having the usual stems 11at its ends, (1 12 indicates a sinker formed with stems at its ends. Theattaching device for sering the line 14 to the float or sinker con- ;ts,as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, of aband 15, rmed of a length of wire turnedinto acoil. 1e end of the coil at one end of the band is tended throughthe band, as indicated at and forms one member of a line-retaining vice17, and from this retaining device the other member thereof is extendedthrough the band.

The construction shown in Fig. 3 is substantially the same as that shownin- Fig. 2, excepting that the member 18 of the band at its end overlapsthe coil from which the mem ber 16 extends.

In Fig. 4 the upper coil of the band is turned to form a retainingdevice 19 at the end of the band, and from this device a portion 20extends through the band to the opposite end.

In Fig. 5 a band 21 is formed of a solid strip of metal, and on one enda line-retaining device 22 is formed, the member 23 thereof beingextended through the band. To receive the member 20 of the retainingdevice shown in Fig. 4, the band may be provided at one side with arecess or channel 24, as indicated in Fig. 6, and, as shown in Fig. 7, awide channel 25 is formed to receive the two members of the retainingdevice indicated in Fig. 2.

In Fig. 8 the inwardly-extended member of the retaining device is whollyWithin the interior plane of the band, the same being indicated at 26.

In securing a line a loop is formed in the same and passed over the endof the free member of the retaining devices. Then the line is drawn upinto the retaining devices and the band placed on the stem. The saidretaining devices being resilient and turned slightly inward will forcethe line tightly against the stem, as indicated in Fig. 9. As a furthermeans for securing the band from slipping the extended end of itsline-retaining device may be slightly pressed into the stem. To removethe line from the float or sinker, the attaching device is to be slippedoff and the line removed from the retaining device.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent 1. A fish-line-attaching device comprising a band, anda line-retaining device formed at one end of the band, a continuationfrom said retaining device being extended within the band, the saidretaining device being adapted to clamp the line against the part towhich the line is to be secured.

4. A fish-line-attaching device comprising a band formed of a singlelength of coiler Wire, the end of one of the coils terminating ii aline-retaining device at one end of the ham and adapted to clamp theline against the par to Which the line is to be secured.

In testimony whereof I have signed my nam to this specification in thepresence of two sub scribing Witnesses.

ALEXANDER ROTH ROBERTSON.

Witnesses E1) BURKE, ELM ER NORTI-IROP.

